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With the other it was different. It had been a great shock to her todiscover that the girl she had befriended, and loved as she had neverloved anyone of her own sex before, was so false, so unutterably base.For some little time she refused to believe it, and a horrible suspicionof foul play had crossed her mind. But the proofs stared her in the face,and she remembered that Fan had kept that acquaintance she had formedwith someone out of doors a secret. On returning to the house in theevening, she was told that shortly after she had gone out for the day aletter was brought addressed to Fan, and, when questioned, she hadrefused to tell Rosie who it was from. At one o’clock Rosie had gone upwith her dinner, and, missing her, had searched for her in all the rooms,and was then amazed to find that most of the girl’s clothes had alsodisappeared. But she did not know that anything else had been taken. MissStarbrow missed some jewels she had put on her dressing-table, and on afurther search it was discovered that other valuables, and one of herbest travelling bags, were also gone. The astonishment and indignationdisplayed by the maid, who exclaimed that she had always considered Fan asly little hypocrite, helped perhaps to convince her mistress that thegirl had taken advantage of her absence to make her escape from thehouse. Miss Starbrow remembered how confused and guilty she had lookedfor two or three days before her flight, and came to the conclusion thatthe young friend out of doors, not being able to see Fan, had kept awatch on the house, and had cunningly arranged it all, and finally sentor left the letter instructing her where to meet him, also probablyadvising her what to take.

But Miss Starbrow had not been entirely bound up in the girl: she hadother affections and interests in life, and great as the shock had beenand the succeeding anger, she had recovered her self-possession, and hadset herself to banish Fan from her remembrance. She was ashamed to let